The first-past-the-post voting system we have in the UK is very biased. The majority of people who voted did not vote for who is in charge.
tl;dr; We have a faux-democracy. Best we can do is hope the guys in power don't screw it up too badly.
You don't have a democracy at all, you're just serfs rulled over by Kings by another name, and don't even know it.
You've been given the illusion of freedom without actually having very much. And you gave up all your guns so you can't actually do anything about it either.
The liberals in the US want to do the same thing, bunch of complete idiots is what they are.
IMHO, the only "real resolution" is an assassination of Kim...he's far too crazy to be able to deal with on any rational trust level.
Of course, when you have a rabid dog, you take him to the vet and put him down.
Not out of malice, but out of compassion... He clearly is unable to function in a civilized society and at some point we're just better off without him.
He did. Though unfortunately you rather overestimated how much power the monarch wielded then and then gave all that misunderstood power to the president of the new US. The US president has far more power than he really should have in comparison to even the UK king then.
Yes, I actually agree with you there...
Arming the populous with guns could make some sense when all the state military had was guns. Now the military has jets, missiles, unmanned drones... you'd probably have to up your civilian militia tech level somewhat to actually have any effective armed power.
Which is why you need well armed civilian militias who are well enough armed to keep the government scared of the people. This doesn't mean everyone needs to own a tank, but local cities and towns should be able to have their own security forces that are well enough armed and cannot be taken over by the federal government.
The state guards could fill this role, if somehow the President couldn't "nationalize" them, which is FUBAR...
The USA was actually fine, until the Civil War, after that and during Reconstruction, we really lost it... the Federal Government really gained their power after that.
I don't think guns are what we need./quote.:) At the end of the day, it usually takes violence to remove a government that doesn't listen to its people.
I'd think the British, of all people, would know this...
Sure you do, when you catch them in the act and when they clearly intend to keep doing it.
If I walk into a room and find someone who has just killed someone and has just moved to their next target and is about to do it again, yep, you shoot them.
As fun as destroying this country sounds, that should not be the defacto way of humanity.
"Should not be" is a nice thing to say, safe from attack...
The only way to stop a bully is to punch him in the nose, he respects nothing else...
Just ask Neville Chamberlain that...
Someone needs to come up with a better solution
Like what, talking? How about we use that same solution with criminals such as murderers and rapists, because that is the level of criminal we're dealing with.
The way to stop someone like that is to shoot them, there really is no other option...
Learn what clock speed is, then buy yourself a clue...
A DUAL CORE i5 at 1.4GHz, even with a "turbo boost" to 2.7GHz, gets its ass kicked by a DUAL CORE i3 at 3.6GHz.
Oh, and by the time you "expand" it, it's hardly $300 now, is it?
Again, you're stupid and don't know what you're talking about. The $500 Mac Mini has 4GB of RAM and 500GB HD. The $300 Acer has 4GB of RAM and 500GB hard drive.
But the Mac Mini can't be upgraded. The Acer can.
Fact is,
No, the fact is you don't know what the hell you're talking about, you're another idiot running your mouth about shit you don't know anything about.
It's also why basic income is better than minimum wage. A minimum wage increases costs for all businesses uniformly, thus impacting the poorer of them (the small businesses, mom and pop shops) at a disproportionate, regressive rate.
And that might have worked, 40 years ago...
The problem comes today in our global economy... those "taxes" have to come from income, that income has to come from jobs, and if people just ship jobs elsewhere, then what?
It's hard to vote someone else into office when the system is so biased and the people currently in office have every incentive to keep it that way.
That is why you need guns, lots of guns... We used them 200+ years ago to get rid of King George, he rather sucked...
You should read the first part of the Deceleration of Independence:
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Bold text is the important part for the purposes of this post...
An overwhelming majority of politicians (444 to 69) voted in favor of the bill which has been roundly criticized by both the public and technology companies.
Yet those same people keep voting the same idiots into office...
You only have yourselves to blame... we have the same problem in the US.
For $200 less, you get a computer that is more than double the performance of the $500 Mac Mini, AND you can actually expand it. Add more RAM if you want, put a SSD in if you want, etc.
Plus, it comes with an actual keyboard and mouse to boot, something the Mac Mini lacks.
Telematics Log Data: To improve our vehicles and services for you, we collect certain telematics data regarding the performance, usage, operation, and condition of your Tesla vehicle, including the following: vehicle identification number, speed information, odometer readings, battery use management information, battery charging history, electrical system functions, software version information, infotainment system data, safetyârelated data (including information regarding the vehicleâ(TM)s SRS systems, brakes, security, eâbrake), and other data to assist in identifying and analyzing the performance of the vehicle. We may collect such information either in person (e.g., during a service appointment) or via remote access.
Remote vehicle analysis: We may be able to dynamically connect to your Tesla vehicle to diagnose and resolve issues with it, and this process may result in access to personal settings in the vehicle (such as contacts, browsing history, navigation history, and radio listening history). This dynamic connection also enables us to view the current location of your vehicle, but such access is restricted to a limited number of personnel within Tesla.
Telematics Log Data: To improve our vehicles and services for you, we collect certain telematics data regarding the performance, usage, operation, and condition of your Tesla vehicle, including the following: vehicle identification number, speed information, odometer readings, battery use management information, battery charging history, electrical system functions, software version information, infotainment system data, safetyârelated data (including information regarding the vehicleâ(TM)s SRS systems, brakes, security, eâbrake), and other data to assist in identifying and analyzing the performance of the vehicle. We may collect such information either in person (e.g., during a service appointment) or via remote access.
Remote vehicle analysis: We may be able to dynamically connect to your Tesla vehicle to diagnose and resolve issues with it, and this process may result in access to personal settings in the vehicle (such as contacts, browsing history, navigation history, and radio listening history). This dynamic connection also enables us to view the current location of your vehicle, but such access is restricted to a limited number of personnel within Tesla.
Telematics Log Data: To improve our vehicles and services for you, we collect certain telematics data regarding the performance, usage, operation, and condition of your Tesla vehicle, including the following: vehicle identification number, speed information, odometer readings, battery use management information, battery charging history, electrical system functions, software version information, infotainment system data, safetyârelated data (including information regarding the vehicleâ(TM)s SRS systems, brakes, security, eâbrake), and other data to assist in identifying and analyzing the performance of the vehicle. We may collect such information either in person (e.g., during a service appointment) or via remote access.
Remote vehicle analysis: We may be able to dynamically connect to your Tesla vehicle to diagnose and resolve issues with it, and this process may result in access to personal settings in the vehicle (such as contacts, browsing history, navigation history, and radio listening history). This dynamic connection also enables us to view the current location of your vehicle, but such access is restricted to a limited number of personnel within Tesla.
Telematics Log Data: To improve our vehicles and services for you, we collect certain telematics data regarding the performance, usage, operation, and condition of your Tesla vehicle, including the following: vehicle identification number, speed information, odometer readings, battery use management information, battery charging history, electrical system functions, software version information, infotainment system data, safetyârelated data (including information regarding the vehicleâ(TM)s SRS systems, brakes, security, eâbrake), and other data to assist in identifying and analyzing the performance of the vehicle. We may collect such information either in person (e.g., during a service appointment) or via remote access.
Remote vehicle analysis: We may be able to dynamically connect to your Tesla vehicle to diagnose and resolve issues with it, and this process may result in access to personal settings in the vehicle (such as contacts, browsing history, navigation history, and radio listening history). This dynamic connection also enables us to view the current location of your vehicle, but such access is restricted to a limited number of personnel within Tesla.
Serious question... is this open information that the driver or owner of the car can read, or is this super secret encoded info that only Tesla has access to?
Do we simply take their word for what the logs say? Is there any way to check via 3rd party that this is in fact what happened and there is a secure means of ensuring the data isn't changed?
This is important, sooner or later it'll end up in court and this will come up. "Trust us" is not an answer.
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The first-past-the-post voting system we have in the UK is very biased. The majority of people who voted did not vote for who is in charge.
tl;dr; We have a faux-democracy. Best we can do is hope the guys in power don't screw it up too badly.
You don't have a democracy at all, you're just serfs rulled over by Kings by another name, and don't even know it.
You've been given the illusion of freedom without actually having very much. And you gave up all your guns so you can't actually do anything about it either.
The liberals in the US want to do the same thing, bunch of complete idiots is what they are.
IMHO, the only "real resolution" is an assassination of Kim...he's far too crazy to be able to deal with on any rational trust level.
Of course, when you have a rabid dog, you take him to the vet and put him down.
Not out of malice, but out of compassion... He clearly is unable to function in a civilized society and at some point we're just better off without him.
He did. Though unfortunately you rather overestimated how much power the monarch wielded then and then gave all that misunderstood power to the president of the new US. The US president has far more power than he really should have in comparison to even the UK king then.
Yes, I actually agree with you there...
Arming the populous with guns could make some sense when all the state military had was guns. Now the military has jets, missiles, unmanned drones... you'd probably have to up your civilian militia tech level somewhat to actually have any effective armed power.
Which is why you need well armed civilian militias who are well enough armed to keep the government scared of the people. This doesn't mean everyone needs to own a tank, but local cities and towns should be able to have their own security forces that are well enough armed and cannot be taken over by the federal government.
The state guards could fill this role, if somehow the President couldn't "nationalize" them, which is FUBAR...
The USA was actually fine, until the Civil War, after that and during Reconstruction, we really lost it... the Federal Government really gained their power after that.
I don't think guns are what we need./quote. :) At the end of the day, it usually takes violence to remove a government that doesn't listen to its people.
I'd think the British, of all people, would know this...
You don't summarily shoot murderers and rapists
Sure you do, when you catch them in the act and when they clearly intend to keep doing it.
If I walk into a room and find someone who has just killed someone and has just moved to their next target and is about to do it again, yep, you shoot them.
As fun as destroying this country sounds, that should not be the defacto way of humanity.
"Should not be" is a nice thing to say, safe from attack...
The only way to stop a bully is to punch him in the nose, he respects nothing else...
Just ask Neville Chamberlain that...
Someone needs to come up with a better solution
Like what, talking? How about we use that same solution with criminals such as murderers and rapists, because that is the level of criminal we're dealing with.
The way to stop someone like that is to shoot them, there really is no other option...
Really? Better performance? With a i3?
Yes
PC Mag doesn't think so...
Learn what clock speed is, then buy yourself a clue...
A DUAL CORE i5 at 1.4GHz, even with a "turbo boost" to 2.7GHz, gets its ass kicked by a DUAL CORE i3 at 3.6GHz.
Oh, and by the time you "expand" it, it's hardly $300 now, is it?
Again, you're stupid and don't know what you're talking about. The $500 Mac Mini has 4GB of RAM and 500GB HD. The $300 Acer has 4GB of RAM and 500GB hard drive.
But the Mac Mini can't be upgraded. The Acer can.
Fact is,
No, the fact is you don't know what the hell you're talking about, you're another idiot running your mouth about shit you don't know anything about.
It's also why basic income is better than minimum wage. A minimum wage increases costs for all businesses uniformly, thus impacting the poorer of them (the small businesses, mom and pop shops) at a disproportionate, regressive rate.
And that might have worked, 40 years ago...
The problem comes today in our global economy... those "taxes" have to come from income, that income has to come from jobs, and if people just ship jobs elsewhere, then what?
There is corruption and fascism everywhere. I weep for the US, their election is looking like a choice between cancer and rabies.
There is some truth to that...
I cringe when Trump makes some of his comments, they are so unnecessary...
I support Trump as much because Hillary is evil and he is just... Trump... as actually supporting Trump...
I'll vote for him, but he isn't my first choice either...
BTW, which would you rather have, cancel or rabies? :)
CGP Gray's "First Past the Post" video...
https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo
It's hard to vote someone else into office when the system is so biased and the people currently in office have every incentive to keep it that way.
That is why you need guns, lots of guns... We used them 200+ years ago to get rid of King George, he rather sucked...
You should read the first part of the Deceleration of Independence:
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Bold text is the important part for the purposes of this post...
An overwhelming majority of politicians (444 to 69) voted in favor of the bill which has been roundly criticized by both the public and technology companies.
Yet those same people keep voting the same idiots into office...
You only have yourselves to blame... we have the same problem in the US.
WTF? $500 isn't cheap enough???
No, it isn't, and what you get for $500 is a shitty computer to boot...
Acer Aspire - Intel i3 - 3.6GHz - $300
http://amzn.to/1UxLhFh
For $200 less, you get a computer that is more than double the performance of the $500 Mac Mini, AND you can actually expand it. Add more RAM if you want, put a SSD in if you want, etc.
Plus, it comes with an actual keyboard and mouse to boot, something the Mac Mini lacks.
I don't know, I don't own one...
I'm simply pointing out that they have the ability to do it... I think this is something that should be adjustable by the end customer...
I wouldn't be so sure...
https://www.teslamotors.com/ab...
Telematics Log Data: To improve our vehicles and services for you, we collect certain telematics data regarding the performance, usage, operation, and condition of your Tesla vehicle, including the following: vehicle identification number, speed information, odometer readings, battery use management information, battery charging history, electrical system functions, software version information, infotainment system data, safetyârelated data (including information regarding the vehicleâ(TM)s SRS systems, brakes, security, eâbrake), and other data to assist in identifying and analyzing the performance of the vehicle. We may collect such information either in person (e.g., during a service appointment) or via remote access.
Remote vehicle analysis: We may be able to dynamically connect to your Tesla vehicle to diagnose and resolve issues with it, and this process may result in access to personal settings in the vehicle (such as contacts, browsing history, navigation history, and radio listening history). This dynamic connection also enables us to view the current location of your vehicle, but such access is restricted to a limited number of personnel within Tesla.
I wouldn't be so sure...
https://www.teslamotors.com/ab...
Telematics Log Data: To improve our vehicles and services for you, we collect certain telematics data regarding the performance, usage, operation, and condition of your Tesla vehicle, including the following: vehicle identification number, speed information, odometer readings, battery use management information, battery charging history, electrical system functions, software version information, infotainment system data, safetyârelated data (including information regarding the vehicleâ(TM)s SRS systems, brakes, security, eâbrake), and other data to assist in identifying and analyzing the performance of the vehicle. We may collect such information either in person (e.g., during a service appointment) or via remote access.
Remote vehicle analysis: We may be able to dynamically connect to your Tesla vehicle to diagnose and resolve issues with it, and this process may result in access to personal settings in the vehicle (such as contacts, browsing history, navigation history, and radio listening history). This dynamic connection also enables us to view the current location of your vehicle, but such access is restricted to a limited number of personnel within Tesla.
I wouldn't be so sure...
https://www.teslamotors.com/ab...
Telematics Log Data: To improve our vehicles and services for you, we collect certain telematics data regarding the performance, usage, operation, and condition of your Tesla vehicle, including the following: vehicle identification number, speed information, odometer readings, battery use management information, battery charging history, electrical system functions, software version information, infotainment system data, safetyârelated data (including information regarding the vehicleâ(TM)s SRS systems, brakes, security, eâbrake), and other data to assist in identifying and analyzing the performance of the vehicle. We may collect such information either in person (e.g., during a service appointment) or via remote access.
Remote vehicle analysis: We may be able to dynamically connect to your Tesla vehicle to diagnose and resolve issues with it, and this process may result in access to personal settings in the vehicle (such as contacts, browsing history, navigation history, and radio listening history). This dynamic connection also enables us to view the current location of your vehicle, but such access is restricted to a limited number of personnel within Tesla.
I wouldn't be so sure...
https://www.teslamotors.com/ab...
Telematics Log Data: To improve our vehicles and services for you, we collect certain telematics data regarding the performance, usage, operation, and condition of your Tesla vehicle, including the following: vehicle identification number, speed information, odometer readings, battery use management information, battery charging history, electrical system functions, software version information, infotainment system data, safetyârelated data (including information regarding the vehicleâ(TM)s SRS systems, brakes, security, eâbrake), and other data to assist in identifying and analyzing the performance of the vehicle. We may collect such information either in person (e.g., during a service appointment) or via remote access.
Remote vehicle analysis: We may be able to dynamically connect to your Tesla vehicle to diagnose and resolve issues with it, and this process may result in access to personal settings in the vehicle (such as contacts, browsing history, navigation history, and radio listening history). This dynamic connection also enables us to view the current location of your vehicle, but such access is restricted to a limited number of personnel within Tesla.
My understanding is that your car is always transmitting all this to Tesla, all the time...
https://forums.teslamotors.com...
This isn't something they "pull" only when you come in for service, they can track and monitor their cars in the world.
I did some Google searching and couldn't find much one way or another...
So far, Tesla has been incredibly customer friendly. Until that changes, the data they collect serves to make their products better.
When that changes...
Tesla is a public company... Google made the "don't be evil" promise once as well, it'll never last...
Subpoena?
Fair enough, but can you trust that what they hand you is what they really are?
And since you own the car, shouldn't you be able to read your own logs?
Sure, but I said "readable", not writable :)
All I'm saying is that everyone seems to be given Tesla a level of trust that they would never give Ford or GM.
Open Source... followed by the ability to compile it yourself and compare them...
So Tesla tracks everything to do with your car, people here seem to love them...
Yet bring up Microsoft and Windows 10 and all that tracking and everyone goes all crazy and how "evilz" MS is...
What's up with that?
Serious question... is this open information that the driver or owner of the car can read, or is this super secret encoded info that only Tesla has access to?
Do we simply take their word for what the logs say? Is there any way to check via 3rd party that this is in fact what happened and there is a secure means of ensuring the data isn't changed?
This is important, sooner or later it'll end up in court and this will come up. "Trust us" is not an answer.
giving people money doesn't taken them out of poverty, you only need to look at lotto winners to see that.